Thanks for all the great input folks. I have decided on a title for my first book. It will be called:
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Happy Hour Is 9 to 5 – How To Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Kick Butt at Work.
Waddaya think?
Thanks for all the great input folks. I have decided on a title for my first book. It will be called:
… drum-roll, please …
Happy Hour Is 9 to 5 – How To Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Kick Butt at Work.
Waddaya think?
I like it alot! Very descriptive, and eye-catching.
I knew! I knew! :))))
Great!
I liked the title up until the “Kick Butt at Work” part. That’s a real turn-off. You should drop that. It sounds too aggressive – and from reading your blog for a while now, it strikes me that you are anything but aggressive. Assertive, positve? Yes. Aggressive? No.
Although I use the word “Kick butt” often, I have to agree with Tim. It kind of has a ‘trying too hard’ feel about it.
How about:
Happy Hour Is 9 to 5 – How To Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Be Happy at Work.
I hear ya on the “kick butt” thing.
I stuck it in there to get something about happiness at work also making you really good at your job. What would be another way to express that?
Happy Hour Is 9 to 5 – How To Love Your Job, Love Your Life And Be Succesful!
I’m with the “no” side on kick butt. How about
Happy Hour Is 9 to 5 – How To Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Be a Player
The word play on player works… play = fun, and player = a person who participates in or is skilled at some game; musician: someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession); actor: a theatrical performer; an important participant (as in a business deal); “he was a major player in setting up the corporation”
(all web definitions)
Where I come from, while “player” can have pretty much the meaning Paul notes, it is just as often used as a synonym for “hustler”, “con artist” or just plain “creep”. In a situation like this I think the words used have to be as unambiguous and unsullied as possible, and I don’t believe “player” fits that bill.
The only two suggestions I can come up with to replace “Kick Butt” are “…and Knock ’em dead at work!” -or- “…and Wow ’em at work!”
Be successful has the right meaning but is a little… bland. I’d like something with a little more pizazz.
I like wow’em at work. Or how about “…and shine at work”?
ass. kick ass.
or, How to Love Your Life, Love Your Work, and Use Happiness as a Tool For Maximizing Productivity.
nope, just Kick Ass.
;-p
How about “….and succeed”? It’s shorter than “be successful” and it’s active, not passive.
Super! Totally super!
Keep creating…happiness at work,
Mike
How about:
Happy Hour Is 9 to 5 – How To Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Be Remarkable at Work.
Alex-
Sorry it’s taken me a few days to get to this. I’ve been swamped teaching a course in social enterprise leadership… i.e. how to create happy, value-based, successful organizations. Anyway, I like the direction of the book title — thought what occurs to me is is not so much the “Happy Hour is 9-5” but more along the lines of “Thank God it’s Monday” which is obviously a take off on “Thank God it’s Friday”. You could then play off of getting excited to get to work Monday morning continuing the good joo-joo from the weekend (is joo-joo a US-only expression?) and be happy 7 days a week.
So might I suggest “Thank God it’s Monday: Tips for Loving Your Job and Your Life, 7 Days a Week” or something like that.
Anyway, please ignore this post if the train has already left the station.
Hope to see you when I’m in Europe in Jan/Feb.
Susanne
Susanne, Bill Woodrow has written a book called, “Thank God it
How about something like this:
Happy Hour Is 9 to 5 – How To Love Your Job, Love Your Life and get ahead!
If you do (and feel) well at your job it’ll also rub off on your personal life – so I don’t see the need to narrow it down to “get ahead at work”
Just a thought!
Well, “Kick Butt at Work” has a little bit of too agressive ring tp it – even though it’s not intended. I agree with Annes proposel, but I think you want a little more kick in the title, so another possibility:
Happy Hour Is 9 to 5
– How To Love Your Job, Love Your Life and Hit the / Your Target!
Thanks for all the updated suggestions. I’m thinking and thinking and thinking and will come back with something real soon!